The Uize.pairUp method, implemented in the Uize base class, has been improved with support for two new variations.

Previously, the Uize.pairUp method was limited to simply creating an object by combining the specified key and value - it only accepted two parameters and could only ever be used to pair up one key and one value to form a new object. With the latest improvement, the Uize.pair method now also supports an arbitrary number of arguments, or a single argument that is an array. These two new variations provide a convenient way to pair up any number of key/value pairs to form an object.

VARIATION 1

keyValueOBJ = Uize.pairUp (
  key1STRorNUM,value1ANYTYPE,
  key2STRorNUM,value2ANYTYPE,
  ...,
  keyNSTRorNUM,valueNANYTYPE
);

When an arbitrary number of arguments are specified for the Uize.pairUp method, then the method will pair up all the arguments as key/value pairs to form a single object, where all the even index arguments are treated as the keys, and where all the odd index arguments are treated as the values. For example, the statement Uize.pairUp ('foo','bar','hello','world') would return the object {foo:'bar',hello:'world'}.

VARIATION 2

keyValueOBJ = Uize.pairUp (keyAndValuePairsARRAY);

When a keyAndValuePairsARRAY parameter is specified when calling the Uize.pairUp method, then the Uize.pairUp method operates on the array in the same way as it would an arbitrary number of arguments. For example, the statement Uize.pairUp (['foo','bar','hello','world']) would return the object {foo:'bar',hello:'world'}. Therefore, if you have an array that represents a set of key / value pairs, you can call the Uize.pairUp method to combine the keys and values together to form an object without having to resort to using the apply method in order to use the arbitrary arguments variation of the Uize.pairUp method.

INSTEAD OF...

Uize.pairUp.apply (0,myKeyValuePairsArray);

USE...

Uize.pairUp (myKeyValuePairsArray);